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Lateef Adegbite
Nigerian lawyer
DR Lateef Adegbite CON | |
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President | Brigadier Oluwole Rotimi |
Born | 20 March 1933 |
Died | 28 September 2012(2012-09-28) (aged 79)[1] |
Citizenship | Nigeria |
Nationality | Nigerian |
Alma mater | College of Law for Solicitors, Lancaster Gate |
Lateef Adegbite (20 March 1933 – 28 September 2012) was a lawyer who became Attorney General of the Western Region of Nigeria, and who later became Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs.[2]
Birth and education
Abdu-Lateef Oladimeji Adegbite was born on 20 March 1933 into a strictly Muslim Egba family in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
According to one account, he attended Methodist School, Abeokuta.[3]
He says himself that he attended Arabic School, then entered St. Paul's Primary School in Igbore, Abeokuta in 1942, when he was aged nine.
Adegbite obtained a scholarship to attend King's College, Lagos, where he was co